Dr Eugene Kim

Eugene Kim is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS University of London. She received her PhD in English Literature from Kingston University in 2024, where she previously taught Korean language and culture. Her research explores Gothic forms, empathy, modernity, and transnational aesthetics, with particular attention to Asian Gothic and the circulation of sensibilities such as terror and the sublime across cultures. 

Alongside her academic research, Eugene works as an editor and curator of Korean literature in translation. She is Editor-in-Chief of Nabillera and has collaborated with Korean cultural institutions and international literary programmes in Europe. She recently curated a Korean literature exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre Belgium. 

She is currently developing two monographs: Gothic Empathy: A Genealogy, based on her doctoral research, and Gothic Korea: Trauma, Empathy, and the Uncanny Modernity, which examines Korean Gothic across literature, film, and visual culture.

Gothic studies; Asian Gothic; affect and empathy; transnational aesthetics; modernity; terror and the sublime; Korean literature and popular culture; visual culture; public humanities; translation and literary circulation.